November 13, 2013

Art: Morris, Le Belle IseultMusic: Emilie Autumn, “Shalott” (link)

READING QUIZ

Schedule Today—Doubt, Self-Reflection, and

Romanticism; Essay #2 prompt; Exam #2 study guide

Monday, November 18—Exam #2 Wednesday, November 20

—“Introduction to The Twentieth Century and After”; Transition, Modernism, and Postmodernism; In-class Literature Circle

Sunday, November 24—Essay #2 due

How would you describe yourself politically? Why?

Democrat Republican Conservative Liberal Libertarian Green Independent Moderate

POLITICAL QUIZ

MORRIS

vs.

MILL

Morris vs. Mill

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

JEREMY BENTHAM

According to John Stuart Mill, writing soon after Queen Victoria ascended the throne, one could not understand contemporary thought without noticing that it divided into two schools derived from Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the "two great seminal minds of England in their age" (“Bentham” 214). As Mill explained in a second essay in The London and Westminster Review,

the two men are each other's "completing counterpart": the strong points of each correspond to the weak points of the other. Whoever could master the premises and combine the methods of both, would possess the entire English philosphy of their age. Coleridge used to say that every one is born either a Platonist or an Aristotelian: it may be similarly affirmed, that every Englishman of the present day is by implication either a Benthamite or a Coleridgean (“Coleridge” 262).

Landow, George P. “Bentham and Coleridge: Seminal Minds.” The Victorian Web. 1999. Web. 12 Nov. 2013.

Morris vs. Mill

TORY RADICALS, CHRISTIAN SOCIALISTS, OR MARXISTS

PROGRESSIVES, LIBERALS, OR RATIONALISTS

need for strong central government, welfare or interventionist state; anti-aristocratic; ambivalent attitude toward middle class

middle-class fear of government intervention, emphasis upon freedom of action

Landow, George P. “Movements and Currents in Nineteenth-Century British Thought.” The Victorian Web. 1999. Web. 12 Nov. 2013.

LIBERAL LIBERTARIAN

Morris vs. Mill

LEGALIZING DRUGS

Landow, George P. “Bentham and Coleridge: Seminal Minds.” The Victorian Web. 1999. Web. 12 Nov. 2013.

Morris vs. Mill

PROSTITUTION

Landow, George P. “Bentham and Coleridge: Seminal Minds.” The Victorian Web. 1999. Web. 12 Nov. 2013.

Morris vs. Mill

POLYGAMY

Landow, George P. “Bentham and Coleridge: Seminal Minds.” The Victorian Web. 1999. Web. 12 Nov. 2013.

Morris vs. Mill

MOTORCYCLE HELMETS

Landow, George P. “Bentham and Coleridge: Seminal Minds.” The Victorian Web. 1999. Web. 12 Nov. 2013.

Morris vs. Mill

ELIMINATION OF CERTIFICATION FOR

TEACHERS AND DOCTORS

Landow, George P. “Bentham and Coleridge: Seminal Minds.” The Victorian Web. 1999. Web. 12 Nov. 2013.

Morris vs. Mill

OTHER ISSUES?

Landow, George P. “Bentham and Coleridge: Seminal Minds.” The Victorian Web. 1999. Web. 12 Nov. 2013.

ESSAY #2 PROMPT

EXAM #2 STUDY GUIDE

Homework

Study for Exam #2